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Definition of sandwich board in English:

sandwich board

noun

A pair of advertisement boards connected by straps by which they are hung over a person's shoulders.

‘I feel compelled to parade the streets wearing a sandwich board proclaiming, ‘Believe me, we're not all this dumb.’’

‘It's also a lot easier for people driving by to see a sandwich board sign rather than getting out of their vehicle and walking up to the door to read the fine print, or to test the door and find it locked.’

‘‘One young child wet the bed one night and was forced to walk round with a sandwich board over him the next day saying what he had done,’ she said.’

‘A woman who stole US $4.52 worth of fuel was ordered to stand outside the gas station wearing a sandwich board sign that declared: ‘I was caught stealing gas.’’

‘She is in the process of getting this put onto a T-shirt, but as it's quite long it may have to be a sandwich board instead.’

‘We dodged past a camel walking by with a sandwich board advertising Cut-Price Jeans on either side of his hump.’

‘If I see you wearing a foam trucker hat, then you might as well be wearing a sandwich board advertising a cheap Chlamydia remedy, because I'm going to walk on by.’

‘This means trying to get it reviewed, getting other people to talk about it, appearing on panels, writing op-eds, everything short of walking around Times Square wearing a sandwich board.’

‘My goodness, I'm sounding like a Bolshevik or a troubled man on a street corner with a sandwich board proclaiming the end of the world is nigh.’

‘He finds work as a roughneck on an oil rig, as a gator wrangler in a tourist trap gator farm, and wearing a sandwich board for a dental office.’

‘Last year she wandered the Fringe grounds apparently topless, her breasts covered by a sandwich board promoting Cake.’

‘I wanted to find someone to kiss me again so much that I practically walked up and down Hampstead High Street wearing a sandwich board saying: ‘Please marry me.’’

‘He had agreed to walk through London wearing a sandwich board reading: ‘I admit the best team won the RWC’ if he was proved wrong.’

‘Unfortunately, the sandwich board also drew the attention of Redmond's regulators, who have decreed that the content of portable signs must be limited to three topics: real estate, politics, and celebrations.’

‘Wearing a sandwich board he paraded outside BT's HQ in London for more than an hour before someone from BT agreed to see him.’

‘An Irish advertising company has created the digital 21st century version of the human sandwich board.’

‘Today, it's a guy on the sidewalk with a sandwich board reading, ‘Will manage portfolios for food.’’

‘Some people suggest that I wear a sandwich board, but that seems bulky.’

‘The court upheld a punishment last summer for a man guilty of postal fraud, requiring him to wear a sandwich board that read: ‘I stole mail.’’